Why it’s alright to be an elite bastard 1 Jun 2008 John Pieret’s blog Thoughts in a Haystack has an essay on this that is well worth reading, although I’d rather be called an elite snob than an elite bastard because all Australians are bastards. It’s part of the Carnival of the Elite Bastards #1 at En Tequila es Verdad. General Science Social evolution
Cognition How not to give a keynote 6 Jul 201222 Jun 2018 So we finally managed to get things going for the Poland keynote. It took over half an hour to get the sound working, after a fashion, and the connection was blocky at best. The hardest part was that I kept trying to hear what people were saying at the other… Read More
History The new Jews? 23 Apr 2008 One of the enduringly evil things done by Hitler and the Nazis was to pick a minority – Jews – and blame them for all the evils that had occurred in German society. Of course, all these evils had causes quite unrelated to the Jews, mostly caused by the overweening… Read More
Ethics and Moral Philosophy Evolution quotes: Social Darwinism by Haldane 23 Oct 201223 Oct 2012 The actual application of Darwinism to contemporary capitalist society is quite clear. The poor leave more offspring behind them in each generation than the rich. So they are fitter from a Darwinian point of view. And if, on the average, they differ genetically from the rich, their innate characteristics are… Read More
Nobody would ever mistake me for a Pommy Bastard. Well, there was that one time when Cliff Richard’s manager thought I came from South London, but that was a while ago and I’ve Aussied up since…
John, Pharyngulas new star Etha Williams has a fantastic post on The Consolation of Elitism which is well worth pointing to : http://jeanneshade.blogspot.com/2008/05/consolation-of-elitism.html Cheers, Martin
John – your attempt to link to the carnival up there goes to John Pieret’s blog. The Bastard Carnival is here Note that Etha’s post that Martin linked to is part of the same Carnival John W. meant to link to.